# Head - Environmental Services (UK&I) GCC **Company**: WSP **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Consulting **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96982?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_eb485ca0-3ab ## Description The UK&I GCC Head of Environmental Services (E&E) is expected to demonstrate effective and visible leadership, focusing on employee engagement, retention, and capability development. The role will build high-performing teams delivering Landscape & Urban Design, Cultural Heritage & Archaeology, and Acoustics services to UK clients, supporting infrastructure planning and environmental projects. This position involves close collaboration with UK&I Environmental Services and other Earth & Environment teams within the E&E Business Unit in UK & GCC. The Head of Environmental Services will provide strategic guidance on attracting talent, improving team utilization, embedding consistent practices, and ensuring high-quality delivery. The role is growth-oriented, supporting the ambition to expand GCC Environmental Services through new service lines, capability building, and delivering high-value services that meet evolving UK market needs. ## Responsibilities ### Leadership & Team Management - Lead and represent the India-based Environmental Services team (Landscape, Heritage, Archaeology, Acoustics) as the primary point of contact, collaborating with WSP UK E&E teams. - Support workforce planning, recruitment, and onboarding to meet growth targets. - Oversee local compliance with health, safety, welfare, risk management, and environmental legislation. - Foster a “one team” UK–GCC culture, encouraging open communication and collaboration. ### Technical Excellence - Bring specialist expertise in at least one discipline (Landscape & Urban Design, Cultural Heritage & Archaeology, or Acoustics). - Demonstrate working knowledge and appreciation of the other disciplines to ensure integrated project delivery. - Oversee production of high-quality outputs such as masterplans, heritage conservation strategies, archaeological assessments, and acoustic studies. - Provide technical governance and quality assurance across all Environmental Services deliverables. - Mentor and support team members, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovation. - Ensure all outputs align with UK standards, legislation, and best practices. ### UK Integration & Ways of Working - Promote GCC Environmental Services achievements within UK E&E and the wider GCC business. - Seek feedback on team performance and convert challenges into opportunities for improvement. - Collaborate with UK and GCC leads to identify qualified staff for projects, balancing scope, schedule, budget, and quality. - Support technical governance of GCC deliverables to align with UK standards. ### Client / External Focus – Delivery Oversight - Act as a key liaison with UK Environmental Services leadership, promoting GCC capabilities and ensuring success. - Review audits and ensure adherence to WSP quality processes, implementing corrective measures where needed. - Stay updated on UK environmental policy, heritage legislation, and competitor activity. - Ensure GCC Environmental Services contributes effectively to bids, proposals, case studies, and client pursuits. ### People – Capability Evolution - Manage GCC Environmental Services resource utilization, forecasting, and cross-selling opportunities. - Inspire staff towards professional memberships (e.g., Landscape Institute, Institute of Acoustics, Chartered Institute for Archaeologists). - Lead appraisals, performance reviews, and succession planning. - Mentor and coach team members towards qualifications in environmental sciences, design, heritage, and acoustics. - Actively reshape the capability mix towards digital tools (GIS, BIM, acoustic modelling, heritage databases). ## Success in this Role Means - Strong, trusted UK–GCC relationships in environmental services. - High utilization and predictable deployment of teams. - New capabilities built and embedded across disciplines. - High-quality delivery aligned to UK standards. - Clear, scalable operating model between UK and GCC. - Growing, motivated Environmental Services E&E team. - Demonstrable shift towards digital and data-led services. - Tangible GCC Environmental Services team actively supporting UK projects. ## Key Competencies / Skills - Senior leadership experience in environmental consulting, landscape architecture, heritage, archaeology, or acoustics. - Proven GCC delivery model management with UK stakeholder engagement. - Strong governance, quality assurance, workforce planning, and utilization management. - Commercial awareness with contributions to bids and proposals. - Excellent communication and ability to explain complex environmental issues to technical and non-technical audiences. - Experience preparing assessments under UK legislation (e.g., planning frameworks, heritage protection acts, acoustic standards). - Awareness of emerging technologies (GIS, BIM, acoustic modelling, digital heritage tools). ## Desirable Skills - Chartered professional accreditation (e.g., Landscape Institute, Institute of Acoustics, Chartered Institute for Archaeologists). - Experience establishing or scaling GCC teams supporting UK/global markets. ## Qualifications - Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Landscape Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Archaeology, Acoustics, or related discipline. - 18–20 years of diverse experience in environmental consultancy, design, heritage conservation, acoustics, project management, and leadership in consulting environments. ## Skills ### Required - Environmental Science - Landscape Architecture - Cultural Heritage - Archaeology - Acoustics - Leadership - Team Management - Governance - Quality Assurance - Workforce Planning - Utilization Management - Commercial Awareness - Communication - GIS - BIM - Acoustic Modelling - Digital Heritage Tools ### Nice to have - Chartered professional accreditation - Experience establishing or scaling GCC teams --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96982?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)